Population who are left-handed and ponder on the struggles that lefties face in everyday life which the rest of us power through without noticing by encouraging right-handed people to do activities with their left hand.
The medical term for being left handed is sinistrality (where we get the word sinister from) and studies found that individuals who are left-handed score higher when it comes to creativity, imagination, daydreaming and intuition. They’re also better at rhythm and visualization and apparently are good at complex reasoning, resulting in a high number of lefty Noble Prize winners, accounting for a larger than expected share.
According to myth, giving a toast with your left hand is the same as placing a curse on the person you’re saluting. When Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, depictions showed her as being left-handed, in order to appear more evil. Left-hander's were also harshly discriminated against during the 18th and 19th centuries, and it was often beaten out of them.
Ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans were all biased against left-hander's as their Gods used the right hand for blessings while they set aside the left for cursing and inflicting punishment and even Christianity favours the right hand, stating that the left side belongs to the devil as he baptises his followers and greets witches with the left hand, and watches you over his left shoulder.
As the world matured people put aside such simplistic prejudices, right? Psychologist Wilhelm Stekel, wrote in 1911 that being left handed made you more likely to be homosexual, indulge in incest and other perversions so maybe not then.
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